Incident #2: close escape
Aug. 11th, 2010 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2Driving home from work tonight, I had to go through some roadworks where they have cut four lanes to two and put a 40kph speed limit on that stretch. It was dark when I was driving through and I didn't quite realise what was happening - a wide truck coming from the other direction was doing about 70 (the usual limit there when there are no roadworks) and was shearing off each of the orange plastic lane markers and flinging it straight into the oncoming traffic - us! My car was struck by four of the markers - one hit high on the driver-side pillar and bounced over the roof, two hit my right wing and the fourth shot straight under the car but made a terrible noise.
It happened so fast that I barely had time to brake before the truck was past and repeating the chaos to all the cars behind me. I was OK but there were two large dents in the wing and some scratches on the bumper where the marker had disappeared under the car. The car behind me though got hit by the marker that bounced off my car, cracking her windscreen and had additional damage as well. The car behind her had damage too but not as severe, the next had no damage at all, the next had lost a head light and so it went on.
The sad thing was that none of us got the truck's rego so I'm not sure how the insurance claim will go. The six of us did all share our details though so that we can be mutual witnesses for each other. The truck never stopped or even slowed so I don't know whether he even knew the chaos he was causing.
It happened so fast that I barely had time to brake before the truck was past and repeating the chaos to all the cars behind me. I was OK but there were two large dents in the wing and some scratches on the bumper where the marker had disappeared under the car. The car behind me though got hit by the marker that bounced off my car, cracking her windscreen and had additional damage as well. The car behind her had damage too but not as severe, the next had no damage at all, the next had lost a head light and so it went on.
The sad thing was that none of us got the truck's rego so I'm not sure how the insurance claim will go. The six of us did all share our details though so that we can be mutual witnesses for each other. The truck never stopped or even slowed so I don't know whether he even knew the chaos he was causing.
